Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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Sonic and Ashuro is an extensive ROM hack by AfterLife while for me in my opinion is that this beautiful ROM hack is like the precursor to Sonic Mania, minus Green Hill Zone for the umpteenth time since we've ALL seen the multiple variants of GREEN HILL ZONE since this ROM hack stands out in my opinion over here.

GREEN. HILL. ZONE.

GREEN... HILL... ZONE...

GREEN!!! HILL!!! ZONE!!!

It was nice and lovely in Sonic 1 but when it's overused a gajillion times, it gets old and annoying but yet very much somewhat cliche but extremely cliche and terribly but downright OLD at best, but that's just my opinion for that, though.

It's beautiful and colorful and in my general opinion of ROM hacks, I happily give this hack 10 out of 10 for visuals and for the music choice of the soundtrack.

(Now, if only I can find the MIDIs used in this since the only MIDI I can find from this is King Meteor's MIDI of Ocean Base Zone, Act 1 from Sonic Advance 3 would be lovely...)

However, this ROM hack scores an 11 out of 10 since the music choice is really good! Plus it doesn't even feel like a regular ROM hack, it feels like an external brand new game and to me, it feels like an entirely new game over here plus Ultra Blue Sonic makes every Badnik just only what?

Cannon fodder! Total cannon fodder, man plus the bosses become very much disappointing but overall, the Badniks are just cannon fodder to him when he's Super or Ultra Blue Sonic.

Plus he will basically break the game and possibly the level since the last time I played this game, it broke the ending title sequence and it was a glitched-out but playable mess. Even the HUD was messed up, too!

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Anyway, you can download the ROM hack here: shc-dist.lostsig.co/downloads/compo2016/[SHC2016]%20[compo2016]%2043%20-%20Sonic%20the%20Hedgehog%20&%20Ashuro%20-%20By%20Ashuro.bin